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Of [Composition]
concerned the composition may be said to regard
the stile: in as far as the disposition of entire
paragraphs ar is concerned, it may be
said to regard the method. Let us begin with
what regards the stile.
§ 2. Choice of words
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Whether every word is expressive of an idea
The signification annexed to the word term idea
with relation to the term word is not perfectly well settled: whether It seems is not to
be yet settled whether every word term that is significant
has an idea belonging to it, or not. There
It certainly is not every word that has an image
belonging to it; that is sufficient of itself to raise
an image in the mind: but so long as a word is
admitted to have some significance, there it seems
as if no inconvenience would result from saying
that it is expressive of an idea. At any rate
this might be said of the word expression term: Since
an expression a term is the sign of an idea.
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Ways in which a term may be improper
An idea then is given: the business is to
express it: a term is chosen for that purpose. If
this term is improper it must be on one or other
of three five accounts. 1. because it expresses no idea
at all. 2. because it expresses an idea which
concludes <add>means</add>
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jeremy bentham |
[[watermarks::r williams [britannia with shield motif]]] |
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c. hamilton |
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